Exchange 2007 OWA issues

I recently fixed a crashed Exchange 2007 server installed on an Enterprise 2003 Windows server and was able to re-install everything, however I'm having a couple of issues with OWA. First issue is that when I go to make OWA "Forms based" authentication...It flat out doesnt work. The OWA page sends a "Page Not Displayed" error. The second issue is that when a user authenticates and OWA loads the page doesnt load any graphics and none of the links work. I absolutely positive that this is a permissions issue of some sort but I'm not sure where to go to fix it. Recently I un-installed IIS, and Un-installed the CAS server role which fixed other issues. The process I followed were found in these articles:

Repil - When you uninstall/re-install IIS and then uninstall/re-install CAS server role, OWA and all Exchange related directories are recreated in IIS. I've done this a couple of times now in the hopes of permissions being re-initialized...but they are not. Any other ideas?

Can Concerto Cloud Services help you focus on evolving your application offerings, while delivering the best cloud experience to your customers? From DevOps to revenue models and customer support, the answer is yes!

Looking at EV...I dont see anything obvious that would be considered IIS Log Entries. Is there somewhere specific you'd like me to look?

The exchweb virtual directory was indeed not set for anonymous access, which I have corrected but whenever I do an "iisreset /noforce" I get the following error:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>iisreset/noforceAttempting stop...Restart attempt failed.The service cannot accept control messages at this time. (2147943461, 80070425)C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

So I do a simple iisreset and when I do that exchweb reverts back to anonymous access not being checked...

Anyway...I just now thought...well if iisreset is resetting the settings on exchweb then they are probably changed on owa as well. I checked and sure enough they were... So I change anonymous for both owa and exchweb resync the IUSR_SERVERNAME PW and unbelievably OWA is working!

So...how do I make the settings take so that if the server bounces or I do an iisreset they stay in place? I havent tried FBA yet...I dont want to jinx anything (...yet)

The iisreset shouldn't be changing anything by itself. The settings may be coming from the settings in Exchange itself. I can't remember how you check them in E2007, but try Get-OWAVirtualDirectory | fl , and see what auth settings are listed. Maybe the iisreset just forces a change to the Exchange settings (the Exchange VDirs get 'special treatment' in this respect), thus replacing something that may have been mistakenly changed in IIS Manager more recently.

Featured Post

Backup and recover physical and cloud-based servers and workstations, as well as endpoint devices that belong to remote users. Avoid downtime and data loss quickly and easily for Windows-based physical or public cloud-based workloads!

Microsoft Office 365 is a subscriptions based service which includes services like Exchange Online and Skype for business Online. These services integrate with Microsoft's online version of Active Directory called Azure Active Directory.

I don't pretend to be an expert at this, but I have found a few things that are useful. I hope that sharing them here will help others, so they will not have to face some rather hard choices. Since I felt this to be a topic of enough importance and…

This video shows how to quickly and easily add an email signature for all users on Exchange 2016. The resulting signature is applied on a server level by Exchange Online.
The email signature template has been downloaded from:
www.mail-signatures…